GeoNotes Blog

Notes for myself and others

  • ArcMap 10.2 slowness

     By John C. Zastrow

    Posted on March 6, 2014

    We’ve been experiencing some a lot of slowness with ArcMap 10.2 across many Windows 7 (64-bit of course) Pro and Enterprise machines. So my colleague has done a lot of research, phone calling (with Esri), and troubleshooting to arrive at the following helpful information. If you having some weird and... [Read More]

  • Dear hipsters

     By John C. Zastrow

    Posted on February 22, 2014

    Just wearing untucked plaid shirts, that you clearly paid too much for, does not make you cool.

  • Postgres database from itis.gov

     By John C. Zastrow

    Posted on January 29, 2014

    This might save you some head aches. The postgresql database dump of the taxonomic universe (according to the USGS) from http://www.itis.gov/ is provided in a latin1 character encoding (specifically it tries to create a database as ENCODING = ‘LATIN1’ LC_COLLATE = ‘en_US.ISO8859-1’ LC_CTYPE = ‘en_US.ISO8859-1’ ). In order to bring... [Read More]

  • PostgreSQL/PostGIS and ArcGIS ArcMap 10.2

     By John C. Zastrow

    Posted on August 22, 2013

    Of course good things come to those who wait (at least that’s the wisdom that I pass along to my kids). We expect that after we’re done waiting we will get something awesome and worth the wait, right? But sometimes what we end up getting is a little underwhelming and... [Read More]

  • I Love LIDAR

     By John C. Zastrow

    Posted on April 12, 2013

    Over the years I’ve tasted good bear, coffee, and hot cocoa. Now I have a hard time drinking the cheap stuff– though I try not to drink expensive wine for fear of losing my wallet. I’m about to get another expensive taste: LIDAR data. I’ve never worked with it before,... [Read More]

  • Spatialite wishlist for 2013

     By John C. Zastrow

    Posted on April 1, 2013

    The Spatialite project and its family of products is progressing and gaining a larger following by the day. Growth seems to be coming from its apparent target audience – mobile developers (though I rely on it for desktop use). This is likely to only snowball as Spatialite acceptance increases and... [Read More]

  • Find listen ports on your linux

     By John C. Zastrow

    Posted on March 22, 2013

    For example, if you only want to see TCP connections, use netstat –tcp. This shows a list of TCP connections to and from your machine. The following example shows connections to our machine on ports 993 (imaps), 143 (imap), 110 (pop3), 25 (smtp), and 22 (ssh).It also shows a connection... [Read More]

  • Bye Bye Google Reader

     By John C. Zastrow

    Posted on March 14, 2013

    Now Google Reader, next Gmail. The Internets are abuzz with news that Google is going to kill off the Google personal RSS Aggregator called Reader. I use Reader everyday. Even more than Gmail. So this is another example of the evils of SaaS and cloudy stuff. You don’t own it.... [Read More]

  • Wget examples

     By John C. Zastrow

    Posted on February 20, 2013

    I keep having to Google wget incantations. So, I’m going to just write some common ones down here. The spell at the moment is below and can be used with my previous post about processing EPA WQX/STORET domain values into useful tables: [Read More]